Having a AGA that provides the hot water means you have to have it service every year just like a combi boiler, but unlike a combi boiler you have to turn the AGA off a good 12 hours before hand to give it time to cool down. So at 8am this morning the AGA company service men turned up to do a yearly service & to put 2 new doors on the ovens, [old oven doors had melted plastic & other stuff splashed on it] they started by checking the burner side [where fuel goes] then they opened the oven doors to change them & just knelt there staring inside the ovens, one of the men then pulled out a baking tray with half melted landline phone, keyring dog whistle [no keys] mobile phone, plastic cats water bowl & my spare hearing aid. Me, my husband, my brother & lodgers were sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspapers, when the men asked why the "items" were in the oven, my brother lowered his newspaper & said you heard of Heston Blumenthal well my sister is related to him & likes to cook non food stuff, I sat there smiling like a Chester cat & nodding my head. I then asked the men if they would like a drink & some cake/biscuits they said yes please, so I picked up the electric kettle filled it with water & then put it on the gas range hob, [I have the fuel Aga & 1 gas range & 1 electric range] my husband got up & removed the kettle before I could turn the gas on & put it on its base & switched it on, my lodgers then both said like he said she's related to Heston Blumenthal the poor men kept on staring up at me. I do have this strange feeling that the 2 men couldn't wait to leave as they had finished in record time, normally it takes a good 2 hours to do service & change both oven doors, but today it only took them 1 & half hours, because as one was changing the doors the other one was firing my AGA back up, they never did drink the tea I made or even ate any cake/biscuits have no idea why not
